South Africa

rolf says...

JayStarr, whats wrong with you?

Hes a stormer and if you continue these thoughts, I'll have to eat my words:

http://planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3561_8030024,00.html

Posted 14:28 31st August 2012

ArmchairGeneral says...

Agree Boks attack was quite good. Unfortunately Arggies defence was quite good too. Boks are a quite good team that can draw with other quite good teams. If they're happy with that, good on them; let's watch them slide down the rankings to a quite good position of around 5th or 6th.

Posted 13:33 31st August 2012

zambokke says...

Dreaming of yesteryear already - Juan, Schalk, Brussow causing chaos,securing ball and making the other teams think about their game plan. Until we can secure quick ball and control the breakdown, how can JDV etc attack? I'm not sure that we have the experience or ability at 6,7,8 for this level although some of the guys have great potential.We need a secure platform. I have no worries re 1-5 apart from the injury to Bismark and Bekker's lack of tackling/injured back. All of the backs in NZ know which position they will play in and what their specialised role is - our backs mainly seem to be utilty backs who can adapt. Who can put their money on it where F.Steyn, Lambie, Pienaar, Hougaard will (if) play throughout the tournament? All of them have flair and can attack and defend as well as anyone, but they can only plan as far as their next game for a particular position or plan. Reading back on this, not sure if it makes complete sense?

Posted 11:40 31st August 2012

APV1 says...

"The attack was quite good at times." But not good enough. You can't be "quite" anything at this level. You must be excelling in every facet. When you're in the top 10 in the world (and always much higher, if you're a Bok), then "quite good" is no-where close.

"We maybe need to improve 40 percent but the margins are very small in Test rugby." - has anyone taught basic mathmatics to him? 40% is not a small margin.

This is a press statement right out of the PdV handbook - a lot of nonsense and rubbish.

JdV needs to exert his authority on the camp and the squad. As scot_rsa suggests, he has the talent. Surely it's one of the roles of the captain to have a quiet word with the coach and point out problems with the game plan. Tell the coach what you want to be doing, not just accept what they tell you and implement their plan. Not in public and not in front of the other players. But as a captain you have to represent the players and articulate their feelings to the coach.

Posted 10:00 31st August 2012

Carpelone says...

The stint at Munster ruined him, no more adventurous, straight runs against the enmy wall with the breeze in your air.

Posted 09:15 31st August 2012

new_j4a says...

Has somebody offered him Australian citizenship? He certainly is acclimatising culturally.

Posted 06:46 31st August 2012

JayStarr says...

The fans where noisy? What were they screaming? "Get a better gameplan!"?

Posted 22:38 30th August 2012

Bennynonose says...

I can only remember SA breaking one tackle and that was because the defender took a bang and look concussed or injured. Why can't players just be honest and admit it was poor or it just didn't work on the day. To say it was good just makes annoys the fans even more!

Posted 22:04 30th August 2012

Ripzy007 says...

JDV your beginning to sound like RD, 'we are good at attaching this and attacking that' and when its game time, its only from 1 - 10 rugby, and limited ball you get you run sideways...IMHO this is just cheap talk

Posted 20:12 30th August 2012

rolf says...

blah blah blah.

stop talking.

deliver.

Posted 19:51 30th August 2012